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Phillip K. Dick, one of the few classic science fiction writers I’ve read, explained reality as, ‘that which, if you stop believing in it, does not go away.’

Over ten hours after the conclusion of the Mercury test, as he was watching Mercury’s new ring sparkling on the television, a guard’s voice came over the intercom to tell him that his psychiatrist had arrived for an appointment. “I never asked for any psychiatrist. Send him away!” He felt exasperated, like he had suffered some great indignity. “Don

Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Gene Wolfe, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Stanisław Lem.

This use of ordinary people as the principal characters was fairly rare in science fiction when the book came out, and even now the genre slips easily into elitism—superbrilliant minds, extraordinary talents, officers not crew, the corridors of power not the working-class kitchen.

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